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1. READING

Some differences between the British and American spelling (you don't need to learn all of them yet):

British English tends to keep the spelling of words it absorbes from other languages (eg. French), while American English tends to adapt the spelling to reflect the way that the words actually sound when they're spoken.

British		American			British		American
-tre		-ter			-ence		-ense
centre		center			defence		defense
fibre		fiber			licence		license
litre		liter			offence		offense
theatre		theater / theatre
-our		-or			-ogue		-og / -ogue
colour		color			analogue		analog / catalogue
flavour		flavor			catalogue		catalog / catalogue
humour		humor			dialogue		dialog / dialogue
labour		labor
neighbour		neighbor
-ize		-ize			-yse		-yze
apologize / apologise		apologize			analise		analize
organize / organise		organize			breathalyse		breathalize
recognize / recognise		recognize			paralyse		paralyze
ll		l			ae / oe		-e
fuel		fuel
fuelled		fueled			leukaemia		leukemia
fuelling		fueling			manoeuvre		maneuver
travel		travel			oestrogen		estrogen
travelled		traveled			paediatric		pediatric
travelling		traveling
traveller		traveler

2. GRAMMAR

· Past Continuous

Past Simple:	I took a photo in a park outside the Convention Center in 2008.	To refer that something that happen at a certain (or specific) point in the past.
Past Continuous:	I took a photo in a park outside the Convention Center in 2008 when everybody was looking at the TV screens.	To refer that something that happen at a certain (or specific) point in the past while something else was happening at the same time.
	The people were looking at the TV screens while they were waiting for the election results (when I took the photo).	To refer that something was happening at a certain (or specific) point in the past while something else was also happening at the same time.

When do we use the past continuous tense?

· At the beginning of a story to set the scene and to say what was happening: On January 20th I was vitising London with some friends. It was a sunny day and we were shopping the whole day.

· When the "actions in progress" (past continuous) are "interrupted" by a short completed action (past simple): We were shopping in a big shopping center when the lights suddenly went off.


















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3. VOCABULARY

This is what you learnt in Básico 1: Unit 4B - prepositions of place and time
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE:

in	at	to
(possition)	(possition)	(movement)
I was in a restaurant last night.(public places) a flat an office a room	I was at a restaurant last night. (public places) home school university work	He goes to the gym. (He goes to home.)

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME:

in	on	at
the morning the afternoon the evening January (the) summer 1978	Tuesday (morning) the 18th of February my birthday	four o'clock midday / midnight lunchtime night the weekend Christmas / Easter / New Year

But now you have to expand your knowledge in Básico 2:

in		on		at
PLACE
Countries and cities: Spain, Madrid Rooms: the kitchen, the bathroom, a room, an office Buildings: a shop, a museum Closed spaces: a park, a garden a car		Transport: a bike, a bus, a train, a plane, a ship (not car) a surface: the floor, a table, a shelf, the balcony, the roof, the wall, on TV		school, home, work, university the airport, the station, a bus stop, a party, the door
Examples in sentences: ·He went to live in South America. · I'm watching the last programme in the Channel 4 series That'll Teach 'Em.		Examples in sentences: ·I'm watching footbal on TV.		Examples in sentences: ·I'm at school. / We'll meet at school. ·I go to school. / He goes back to school. ·We met at college. ·She's at a college in Madrid. ·We met at university. ·I bought a jacket at Barcelona airport. ·I had a shower at my apartment.
TIME
Months: January, March Seasons: (the) summer, (the) winter Years: 1978, 2009 Times of day: the morning, the afternoon, the evening (not night)		Dates (one date): June 2nd (the 18th of February) Days (one day): Tuesday (morning), New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, my birthday		Times: four o'clock, half past three, 5.25 midday / midnight / noon lunchtime Festival periods (some days): Christmas / Easter / New Year night the weekend
		Examples in sentences: ·She does her homework usually late on Sunday night.

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IN HOSPITAL

I was in hospital six days ago because I had an operation.	= cuando estás ingresado
My mother was in hospital for an operation.

AT HOSPITAL

My mother was at hospital while I was on surgery.	= cuando alguien va de visita
My mother was at the hospital when I had the operation.

IN THE HOSPITAL (= para decir que alguien está en el hospital) / AT ..... (cuando dices el nombre del hospital)Look at the dialogue:

Do you know where is John?	He is in the hospital!!!
Really, what happened?	He was in a car accident.
What hospital is he in?	He's at St. Joseph's.

at / on / in:

IN (you are just in a place)	AT (you have a purpose)
I'm in this room.	I'm at the office. (I'm working)
The dog is in the pharmacy.	The dog's master was at the pharmacy (to buy drugs).
I was in the airport. / I woke up in an airport (from a dream).	I was at the airport to pick up a friend of mine.

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5. LISTENING

France government came close to collapse in May 1968, enveloped in what was the largest political action in a developed country to date; eleven million workers protested over a period of two weeks in a political anomaly that rejected both communism and capitalism.
Student leaders of 1968 emulated the style and icons of the earlier revolutions in France — at times to the point of caricature. At the top of their subversive icons was Marianne — an allegory of Liberty and Reason since the founding of the First French Republic. Ironically, in May ’68, it would be an English socialite, Caroline de Bendern, who came to symbolize her. In an iconic photo from that May, de Bendern was perched on the shoulders of her friend the painter Jean-Jacques Lebel, the instigator of Odeon Theatre occupation. De Bendern was a rebel, having expelled from numerous English boarding schools, modelled in Paris and New York, consorted with the likes of Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, and made experimental films with the Zanzibar group. However, on May 13th, she was just an accidental celebrity — she rode upon Lebel’s shoulder because her feet were sore. She waved the flag of Vietnam, not because she herself protested Vietnam war, but because it was the flag Lebel had been brandishing. Yet, the ultimate showman, she posed as Marianne from her elevated position — a solemn mockery of Delacroix’s immortal La Liberté guidant le peuple.
At Place Edmond Rostand, near the Jardin de Luxembourg, Jean-Pierre Rey took the above famous photo of her which was later published in Life Magazine on May 24th. Her patrician grandfather saw the photograph and disinherited her out of 7.5 million pounds largesse *. Caroline spent the rest of her life decennial and unsuccessfully suing Rey for the rights to the photo, in ’78, ’88, and ’98.
Life was not better for Marianne herself. The tarnished icon was phased out from on the stamps, and during the 1789 Revolution’s Bicentennial, she was hardly seen. The photo, on the other hand, made numerous appearances: on the covers of Les enfants de l’aube (The Children of the Dawn) by Patrick Poivre d’Arvor and Paris-Match’s commemorative edition on 1968.
*Her grandfather Maurice Arnold Deforest (1879-1968) was adopted by banker Baron Moritz Hirsch. No one knew where Deforest came from. It was alleged he was the illegitimate son of King Edward VII or an Austrian prince. The shadowy billionaire was later a Liechtenstein count (Graf von Bendern), a French lord (Châtelain of Beauregard), an English baron (Baron deForest) and a MP (for West Ham).

Taken from: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/caroline-de-bendern/

6. SONG

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